A Relation of the Wise Conference Between Sancho and His Master.
While the curate and canon are so engaged, Sancho has a shrewd talk with his encaged master. He declares that the town curate and barber are playing a shameful trick, and that if Don Quixote were truly enchanted the natural functions of his body would be suspended. The knight admits that he is in need of physical relief because his bodily functions are operating, but he counsels his squire to understand that enchantments always take different forms, according to circumstance. The curate may appear to be a familiar person, but he is in fact a powerful necromancer. Sancho seeks permission for his master to be uncaged in order to relieve himself, and while Don Quixote is gratefully relaxing on the grass, he engages with the canon in conversation about books of chivalry. To all the clergyman's accusations that the novels are untruthful and therefore pernicious, Don Quixote declares that every incident therein depicted and each person discussed is in the image of truth and is documented in history.
